Vasco António Rodrigues Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema.
He already had a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa, in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films.
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Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port...
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Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had a...
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While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy ...
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A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes...
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Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern),...
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Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by him...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | O Costa d'África (1954) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 2 | Fado, a Singer's Story (1947) | Joaquim Marujo | - | - |
| 3 | The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 4 | The Tyrannical Father (1941) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 5 | A Song of Lisbon (1933) | Vasco Leitão | 8.3 | |
| 6 | Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle (1930) | - | 5 |
